The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Teknaf, Bangladesh:  Bangladesh security force –Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) pushed back 65 Rohingyas to Burma on August 25, according to BGB statement. “BGB pushed back 22 Rohingyas to Burma through Taungbro and Gundum areas and 43 Rohingyas from Shapordip and Nela areas of Teknaf.”

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Rakhine community from Maungdaw is stocking lethal weapons to attack Rohingya community in Maungdaw since July, according to a village admin officer from Maungdaw. “The Rakhines have been bringing lethal weapons- long swords- from different townships of Arakan State through Buthidaung by trucks and ships since July.”

Dhaka, Aug 26 (bdnews24.com) -- Food and Disaster Management Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque has turned down a call by an European Commission delegation to remove the ban on three international NGOs, allowing them to work amongst Rohingya refugees at Cox's Bazaar. The minister told members of the Humanitarian Aid Organisation delegation on Sunday that the Doctors Without Borders, Action Against Hunger and Muslim Aid UK have "passed on wrong information abroad" in the name of work here.

                   In this June 14 file photo, a fishing boat carrying a group Rohingyas in the Naf river. European Commission (EC) has requested Myanmar to provide citizenship to Rohingya people and ensure their fundamental rights for a sustainable solution to the issue, an EC official said on Sunday. European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection office’s Director General Esko Kentrschynskyj said EC as well as the international community have been maintaining contacts to solve the problems of the ethnic community of Myanmar.

YANGOON: Burma has set up a commission to investigate recent violence between Buddhists and Muslims in the west of the country, in which thousands Muslims died. The move was announced by President Thein Sein, who earlier rejected UN calls for an independent inquiry. The clashes between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims also displaced thousands of people.

                         Indonesian Muslims holding placards displaying the words "Stop Killing Rohingya" attend a rally outside the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on August 6, 2012. A political analyst says the United States is responsible for the genocide of the minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar,   Press TV   reports.

An undated photo shows a Rohingya refugee  woman  carrying a child in an unregistered camp in Kutupalong, some 400 kilometers southeast of Dhaka. Dear American Buddhist brothers and sisters, I am writing to every contact listed at Buddhanet.info’s American Buddhist Directory to ask:  Are you aware of the ongoing genocide in Myanmar (Burma) -- a genocide that is being committed in the name of Buddhism? 

STEWART Hosie MP is supporting calls for government action of ethnic violence in Burma. The MP has previously signed an Early Day Motion at Westminster and responding to concerns from constituents with family in Burma, he has now written to the Secretary of State, the Rt Hon William Hague MP.

(MENAFN - Arab News) The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) has asked Muslim and Arab countries to take further measures to help Muslims in Myanmar, insisting that Gulf states should assume a "pioneering role" in the drive.

Humanitarian mission:  Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) chief Jusuf Kalla inspects the loading of aid onto a cargo plane for refugees of ethnic conflict in Myanmar at Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport, East Jakarta, on Saturday.  JP/Jerry Adiguna The Indonesian Red Cross organization (PMI) sent personnel and humanitarian aid from Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport in East Jakarta on Saturday to assist refugees of the deadly conflict between the Rohingya and Rakhine ethnic groups in Myanmar.

                          Western Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims face food shortages and ethnic violence. The government of Bangladesh should immediately cease its punitive restrictions on international organizations providing lifesaving humanitarian aid to the more than 200,000 Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said. “The government should also open its borders to Rohingya fleeing sectarian violence and abuses by Burmese security forces in Arakan State in western Burma,” it said in a statement.

About 100 people attend a rally in Queen's Park Saturday that urged Ottawa to press Burma to end persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Southeast Asian country. Ottawa should be far more vocal in urging Burma to end the persecution of the Rohingya people in the Southeast Asian country, said demonstrators at Queen’s Park on Saturday.

Rohingya Community  Speech Delivered on 23 August 2012      Assalamualaikum and Very Good afternoon I am Mohammed Rafique, one of the Rohingya who were settled down here by the Irish government who have supported us so much so that we are very thankful. I was born in Burma but I have grown up in Bangladesh Refugee camp for more than 18 years and my family have taken refuged in Bangladesh from persecutions on Rohingya in Arakan state during another Rohingya ethnic cleans.

We are reported that three staffs of United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) arrested with no valid reason at an earlier time of violence in Arakan, Burma, were given imprisonments by Maung Daw District Court upon many criminal acts of law. Ma Cho Lay Maa, a UNHCR staff, was sentenced to six years imprisonment and other two staffs, Maung Khin Shwe and Maung Khin Zaw, from Buthidaung Township, were sentenced to 3 years and two years respectively.